Arriving to the draft:

All captains need to be logged into mumble in the "Draft" lobby and unmuted at your computer by the times listed below for the draft. Please be early, we can begin the draft as soon as all captains are present and accounted for. The draft will begin at the time listed below regardless if all captains are present.

Any captain who is not present at the time the draft begins will not be drafted a team and therefore unable to participate in the Reddit Dota 2 League Season 4.

If for whatever reason you know in advance that you will be unable to be on mumble for the draft (or when the draft begins) you may arrange to have a person substitute for you and draft your team. In order to do this you must do the following:

Find a friend whom you trust who is capable and willing to draft for you.

At least 24 hours before the draft time reply to this post with the exactly following information:

The division name for which you are a captain (Example: EST-MON).

The in game name you provided in your registration.

The reddit username you provided in your registration (I know your comment will have this, but this will allow your substitute to make the comment on your behalf, and for ease of data collection I want everyone to please provide this).

The name (in game name) your substitute will be using when they log into mumble.

The reddit username of your substitute.

If your substitute is registered for RD2L S4, the division name for which they are signed up.

Insure that your substitute (or you) is, using the name you provided, logged into mumble in the "Draft" lobby and unmuted at their computer by the times listed below for the draft.

Draft order:

The draft pick order will be determined by First Pick forms and set before the draft begins. Any captains not present at the time the draft starts will be removed from the order.

The draft will be a snake draft. This means that the pick order of every other round is reversed. Example:

Right before the draft begins admins will move captains from the "Draft" lobby into their own sub-lobbies based on the pre-determined draft pick order.

Making picks:

When the draft begins Remorse will go to each lobby, one by one, in order and ask the captain for their pick. Captains are expected to have a pick ready by the time Remorse enters their mumble lobby. If the player they pick is not able to be drafted (not on the list, or already drafted by another captain) the captain will be informed and given some additional time (2 mins) to choose another pick. So please make sure to have a few potential picks in mind before it is your turn to pick. When making a pick the captain should be able to provide Remorse with the player's in game name and/or reddit username.

Drafting tools for captains:

Each division is provided a google document prior to the draft that will contain a list of all the players in the draft. The list will contain the players in game name, reddit user name, which captains has picked them (left blank until picked), the round and pick number they were picked (also left blank until picked). The list will be sorted by the player's in game name. This document will be updated live during the draft so the captains may see who is already picked and so that they may confirm their picks are being recorded properly. Found here:

These documents should be sufficient (along with any notes you have taken on players in inhouses or from last season) for captains to draft their teams.

Following the draft:

A few hours following the draft there will be a post to the subreddit listing the team rosters. Captains are expected to contact (add on steam, email, etc) their players.

The draft picks are final, captains will not be able to add new players, drop players, or trade players with other teams.

Draft Procedure for Players:

Spectating the draft:

There is no requirements for non-captain players when it comes to the draft. If you wish to "spectate" each division will be provided a google document (later this week) that will contain a list of all the players in the draft and will be updated live when a captain picks a player, showing the captains name, round the player was picked, and pick number.

I encourage all the players to jump on mumble at the time of their draft so they can banter with each other while waiting for the google document to update with the next pick! A "Watch the Draft!" lobby will be created for this purpose.

Following the draft:

A few hours following the draft there will be a post to the subreddit listing the team rosters. Players are expected to visit the subreddit to find out their team. Captains should also be contacting players directly to start organizing the team.

What comes next:

Teams will have about four weeks until the beginning of regular season (scheduled to start April 21st). During this time teams are encouraged to get to know their teammates, practice with each other, and scrimmage other teams.

Every team is required to complete an "official scrimmage" before April 21st. More information about this will be posted following the drafts.

You will get drafted (unless you are on the waitlist), maybe last, but who cares. But keep in mind, if you were the <1999 MMR equivalent in skill in basketball, and you joined a basketball team, you probably wouldn't get to play much in games. Maybe you'd get some minutes here and there, but if the team was competitive they'd probably limit your minute for obvious reasons. Don't feel bad about this. People will get frustrated with you being "new" to the game, and not having as much skill, talent and/or practice as other players on the team. Don't feel bad about that either. Work to improve, stay active, ask teammates to queue with you and teach you/learn from them. Beg your captain to set up scrims that you can play in. 5 stack with 4 other players from your team and try to play competitively.

As long as you are proactive you will have a good time and learn a lot. Dont' get upset when you dont' get to play in every official match and just quit participating, eventually your team might NEED you to avoid forfeit, and that day, you will be the hero!

depends, only saw like 40 people for aus and like 25 for sea, not sure if that counted captains or not, but you'd need like 48 if you wanted 6 teams of 7 players and a captain, not to mention all of them would have to show up and not flake out on the league

There were originally over 80 sign ups in each of those divisions, but due to not being properly informed of having to re-register most of them have been deleted. They have so many of our details, including steam ids, but chose to use this sub to make the notice, and unless you actively checked this sub everyday (which wasn't a requirement), you would have missed it.

I know this is 3 days later, but nobody wants to message everybody on steam in order to inform them. I would assume that their strict rules are due to a history of no shows from many players. It makes sense that a reddit league have its news posted on reddit.

Yeah I think I was at fault. Although the post in /r/dota2 said "follow this subreddit closely" and I didn't notice it was cross posted to /r/redditdota2league so I was like yeah, I already do that. No problem.

Note to players wanting to get drafted: JOIN THE GUILD! Inhouses are the best way for captains to scout you out, and for you to make yourself known. I've already met a couple potential picks for my division through inhouses. I usually host a couple inhouses a night, some where I play and others where I watch. And for best results, make sure you use the [ZONE-DIV] tag system!

heh, so far the guild has let me know who I didn't want to draft, guys that would have been my top picks are now lower on the totem pole after playing against them and constantly landing aa ults on them in the same place on the map, or they turn out to be a dick. So far I want to draft the people I haven't played with yet except for 1 guy who did better than I thought he'd do from his player sheet.

Sorry, but if it's cool can I be taken off the list so that someone waiting can get a reserved spot? I just found out that I won't be able to attend during the whole season, so I may as well start next season.

Good morning and happy Tuesday. I am freakin stoked that I got drafted, especially way earlier than I thought I would be. Great streaming by cvac.

I know last season and this season captains would drop leading to upset undrafted players. I don't know if this is the right place for it but somebody (I forgot who) posted in the lobby last night about having captains who register put down a few dollars to ensure they make it to draft day, and after forming a team get their money back.

Again I don't know if this is the right thread so sorry if I bent any rules. Just thought I'd convey an idea I haven't seen yet in the subreddit which sounded fairly viable.

Yeah I see your point. It just sucks that that's the mindset players going into the draft have. On top of that it also makes it much harder for new comers to break into the league because captains may want to draft people they are familiar with or heard of already.

Anyway you definitely have a point, figured I'd just throw the idea out there. It's like a leaf on the wind, watch how it soars.

I'm still not on the player list for SEA. All because the option to NOT DELETE my registration wasn't there when I registered. So basically, because I got in early (just like about 60 other people), I don't get in the draft (just like those other 60). And you wonder why there are so few players from regions like AUS and SEA.

Hi..I was just wondering...I have registered for CET WED on March 10,and I was sent straight to the waiting list...is it still any chance for me to get to the players list? Or even registering 2 weeks before the event was to late?
Thanks

Look at the very left. It shows the number of rows. Go up to 1. Now above that, there is something that says Row. Above THAT it says picks. To the RIGHT of THAT, it says Captains. To the RIGHT of THAT, it says Players.